Following the hoof prints of horse history
A 12-week online course of written report exploring the evolutional history of horses, their domestication, as well as the comport upon on the modern-day human-horse human relationship is existence offered past times Canadian instruction provider, Equine Guelph.
The course of written report at Equine Guelph, the Equus caballus owners’ as well as tending givers’ Centre at the University of Guelph, inwards Ontario, is ane of many offered online, starting Jan 2013.
Course teacher Gayle Ecker, who is the managing director of Equine Guelph, said students volition larn well-nigh diverse aspects of the Equus caballus manufacture – both racing as well as non-racing – as well as consider the type of manufacture that volition hold upward built for the future.
“Many of us inwards the Equus caballus manufacture remain inwards our plain of written report ‘silos’ as well as produce non become the peril to sympathise the issues faced past times other sectors of the industry, many of which are shared challenges,” Ecker says. “The agency forrard would produce goodness from us working together every bit a whole industry.”
The course of written report volition besides render students amongst a expect at the diverse roles played past times the Equus caballus throughout history, such every bit move as well as warfare, as well as let students to seek out information well-nigh the dissimilar sectors of the manufacture today as well as the challenges that are currently facing the industry.
Students volition besides produce goodness from fundamental invitee speakers, who volition percentage their passion for equines of the past, including Dr Jeff Thomason, a researcher at the University of Guelph, who volition hash out the evolutionary changes to the horse’s hoof as well as its implications; Derek Nelson, a Historical Military Strategist who volition hash out the purpose of the Equus caballus inwards the military; as well as Dr Sandra Olsen, managing director of the Center for World Cultures at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, who volition verbalize well-nigh the commencement show of domestication inwards horses.
Olsen, an archeologist whose query has focused on the Equus caballus as well as human human relationship through time, says: “Scientists as well as the populace at large make a to a greater extent than thorough agreement of the critical roles that horses convey played inwards human civilization through the discoveries made inwards recent years past times diverse researchers inwards molecular biology, archaeology, anthropology, history as well as other related fields.”
Olsen is currently investigating images of horses inwards stone fine art inwards Saudi Arabia, which is featured at http://Saudi-Archaeology.com.
“Horses convey made a tremendous comport upon on humanity, especially inwards the areas of transportation, trade, work, the transmittal of linguistic communication as well as technology, religion, accumulation of wealth, sports, as well as most notably, warfare as well as conquest,” she says.
The Equine Industry is merely ane of many courses offered online starting Jan 2013 through the continuing instruction plan at the University of Guelph. Other courses offered inwards the Winter 2013 lineup include Equine Functional Anatomy, Equine Behaviour, Management of the Equine Environment, Equine Nutrition, as well as Marketing as well as Communications inwards the Equine Industry.
Registration is forthwith open, amongst early on plane registration ending Dec 7, 2012. Courses run from Jan vii to March 31, 2013.
More information: Email the Centre for Open Learning as well as Educational Support at info@coles.uoguelph.ca, telephone band 519-767-5000, or take in www.equinestudiesdiploma.com.
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